JESSIE LAU

Fact: I don’t party.

But I’m in Hong Kong so I made an exception (hahahahaa I make myself sound so important) and went to the Landmark Men Summer Party (upscale mall in Hong Kong). I’m not entirely sure what happened there except I met some of the Hong Kong bloggers who I have been following for some time. Funny enough, earlier the week I was assigned to do a piece on the local bloggers for Time Out Hong Kong (where I’m interning). So it’s super awesome to finally meet them in person after some email exchange!!!

From top to bottom:
1. Following Carmen Chan around, creeping… check out her Baggu backpack
2. Woot Carmen shooting! I love taking behind the scenes photos
3. Carmen (also of How I Met Your Style), Denise of SUPERWOWOMG, Jason of TOUGHLOVE
4. JJ. Acuna aka the Wanderlister and Jason
5. Live mannequins
6. Jun Kung (恭碩良) and band

Vans love with Carmen // Poser

me + SUPERWOWOMG // TOUGHLOVE

Anyway, a little bit on photography… I am deathly afraid of taking formal group photos, like those “look here and smile!” ones. I could never really get the focus/lighting right without a few shots. I know I don’t have enough experience in that area because I always go for the familiar and say that “I prefer to shoot candids” (I do) and avoid formal photos the best I could. It’s just odd to think that you could give me a song’s time to shoot a band, I could get a bunch of shots but if you see me walking around and ask me to take photos of you and your friends, I would freak out and can’t think straight. See why I like to shoot behind the scenes?!

P.S. The bloggers here are all part of this cool collaborative Brew & Post, check it out for more stuff on style and art.

P.P.S. Wow of the four years of using Tumblr, I never realized that I can’t post full-sized photos if I want to use a text post…? I mean I could but people wouldn’t be able to see it on the dashboard and we all know how important the dashboard is… so I opted for this Photo set post format… I just couldn’t resist the big pictures.

P.P.P.S. Although I have to admit I want to give Blogger one more change again… but I have spent too much time deciding on a platform than actually posting so good news for you Tumblr (as annoying as it is to admit), I’m here to stay…